"A major reclamation of the reason and ritual surrounding
female body and blood. Grahn is clearly one of the gifted "tellers" who
was born with the knowings of times past in her very blood and bones."
--Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D., author of Women Who Run with the Wolves

"Grahn has returned the horse to
its rightful place behind the cart, which is to say, menstruation before
culture. …Blood,
Bread, and Roses [is] an extraordinary demonstration of the creativity that
womanflesh is heir to."
--San Francisco Bay Guardian

"[Grahn's]
intriguing excursion through folklore, myth, religion, anthropology and history
bespeaks a feminist conviction that male origin stories must be balanced by
a recognition of women's centrol role in shaping civilization."--Publishers
Weekly

"A thought-provoking alternative cultural history."--Library
Journal

"Judy Grahn has once again given us a gift.… She is
giving us back some of our history, too long lost."--Lambda Book Report